Hong Thai, 6425 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis, has closed; a sign on the door says it will reopen as Krung Thai in a new location but doesn’t specify where.

The restaurant first was opened in the mid-1990s by Noudeum Pophananouvong nearby, at 6501 W. Greenfield. When that building was scheduled to be demolished, the restaurant moved to 5114 S. 108th St. in Hales Corners. It ultimately returned to Greenfield Ave., in new construction. | Nov. 23, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Pierce's remarks will come as no surprise to anyone who has seen even a small selection from the Milwaukee-based Iannone's body of work, encompassing scores of roles that include Shakespeare's Henry IV, a galvanic Lady Macbeth and a Medea that I never expect to see equaled. Iannone has carried the entire load in one-person shows re-creating fashion arbiter Diana Vreeland and the great Kate Hepburn. | Aug. 1, 2014»Read Full Article

Butler weaves the intimate story of her own parents' deaths, from her dad's too-long and heartbreaking demise to her mother's honorable and "good" choice to die. She elegantly leads us through this final pathway set against the backdrop of an aggressive health care system and sometimes insensitive providers. At best they seemed to have forgotten that death will never escape anybody. | Aug. 1, 2014»Read Full Article

"I am just one woman trying to make sense of this world we live in," Roxane Gay writes in her introduction to "Bad Feminist: Essays" (Harper Perennial). But she's one woman that nearly 20,000 people on Twitter are following for her thoughts — and many other readers online and in print are tracking for her fiction and prose.

Khine Hline is far from the first artist to use a break up for inspiration, and she won't be the last. It takes guts, though, for a fully formed, serious artist to tiptoe into the gushy, hotblooded domain of heartbreak, a minefield of potential cliches, and make a show of it.

That is what Hline, the owner of Comb, a new gallery in Walker's Point, did. She made a beautiful, ardent little show. It is filled with the ways that we read our world when we lose someone, the everyday doings that suddenly seem pregnant with meaning when we're trying to make sense of loss. | Aug. 1, 2014»Read Full Article

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The fourth annual Urban Island Beach Party pitches its tent at Lakeshore State Park from 4 to 11 p.m. Friday. The free lakefront bash, sponsored by Newaukee, includes music, politicians bashing pineapples instead of each other, a rock-climbing wall, hula-hoop and limbo contests, and more. More than a dozen members of Milwaukee's growing food-truck fleet as well as other local foodies will be there, too, as part of Shepherd Milwaukee's Street Eats. | Aug. 1, 2014»Read Full Article